2024-03-29T10:30:15Zhttps://riubu.ubu.es/oai/requestoai:riubu.ubu.es:10259/76352023-04-11T00:05:21Zcom_10259_3830com_10259_5086com_10259_2604col_10259_3832
Social Simulation Models as Refuting Machines
Mauhe, Nicolas
Izquierdo Millán, Luis Rodrigo
Izquierdo, Segismundo S.
Social Simulation
Computer Simulation
Refutation
Modelling
Counter-Example
Markov Chain
Matemáticas
Informática
Sociología
Mathematics
Computer science
Sociology
This paper discusses a prominent way in which social simulations can contribute (and have contributed) to the advance of science; namely, by refuting some of our incorrect beliefs about how the real world works. More precisely, social simulations can produce counter-examples that reveal something is wrong in a prevailing scientific assumption. Indeed, here we argue that this is a role that many well-known social simulation models have played, and it may be one of the main reasons why such well-known models have become so popular. To test this hypothesis, here we examine several popular models in the social simulation literature and we find that all these models are most naturally interpreted as providers of compelling and reproducible (computer-generated) evidence that refuted some assumption or belief in a prevailing theory. By refuting prevailing theories, these models have greatly advanced science and, in some cases, have even opened a new field of research.
2023-04-10T10:52:37Z
2023-04-10T10:52:37Z
2023-03
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1460-7425
http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7635
10.18564/jasss.5076
1460-7425
eng
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 2023, V. 26, n. 2
https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.5076
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